How can I keep ARTS from starting?
John Wendel
jwendel at fnmoc.navy.mil
Wed Nov 19 23:14:11 UTC 2003
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 12:50 pm, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> Hello, Everyone :)
> I am running a fresh install of Fedora Core 1, during which I
> chose to install every package. I am also running KDE 3.1.93,
> installed from the Fedora RPMS I got from ftp.kde.org.
> The problem is, I have an application I really want to keep
> using, JUK, which requires that ARTS be installed even to run. So
> I have to have arts and arts-devel installed. Unfortunately, I
> can't play mp3's with XMMS when ARTS is running :( If I uninstall
> ARTS, I'm good to go (I use the OSS driver with XMMS)
> Anothe scenario: I chose to not start ARTS up when I log into
> KDE. And I also chose to not have any system sounds. Yet, when I
> reboot or log-in, the sounds are back. If I kill ARTS, it starts
> right back up, and I'm back to square one :(
> Any ideas about how to have the ARTS rpm's installed, but
> guarantee that it will never actually start up?
> Your help is greatly appreciated :)
>
> Steven P. Ulrick
Did you try the following
su
cd /usr/bin
chmod 444 arts*
Guaranteed to keep aRts from running. I don't know what else it will
break <grin>.
Regards,
John
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